Panchayat Polls: SEC Begins Process, Draft Electoral Rolls On Sept. 6
Deccan ChronicleHyderabad: The Telangana State Election Commission has initiated the process for conducting elections to gram panchayats. State election commissioner C. Parthasarathi held a meeting with panchayat raj secretary Lokesh Kumar, commissioner Anita Ramachandran, Dr. Patil Sangramsingh Ganpatrao, additional director general, Centre for Good Governance and TSEC officials to discuss the revision of electoral rolls. As per the schedule, draft electoral rolls should be displayed at all gram panchayat and mandal parishad offices on September 6. Meetings should be conducted with representatives of political parties at the district level on September 9 and at the mandal-level the next day Objections on draft electoral rolls, if any, should be received from September 7 to 13. After verification, officials should dispose of objections by September 19 and final electoral rolls should be published and displayed on September 21.